CIS 1200 Lecture Notes - Lecture 31: Project Management Software, Personal Information Management, Productivity Software

• School: University of Guelph
• Department: Computing and Information Science
• Course: CIS 1200
• Professor: John Saville

Document Summary

Many types of productivity software; basically, broken down into things for instance, word. Business software, simply software we use at our jobs and are customized for our specific businesses, ex. Word processing software help us create documents that are professional looking, they also allow us to do things such as drop cap, text wrapped around image, hyperlink, headings, Spreadsheet software helps us keep track of numbers and equations. Presentation software helps us get our message across, often used in business presentations or in academic teaching. Microsoft powerpoint is the most common type of presentation software. Personal information management software(e-mail), helps us to communicate and schedule our entire lives. Entertainment software, allows us to take pictures for example we can modify the original picture. There are also gaming software for example world of warcraft or solitaire, spades, System software helps run the computer and coordinates instructions between application software and the computer"s hardware devices.